(September 27, 2014 at 12:37 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(September 27, 2014 at 12:34 am)psychoslice Wrote: Of course you feel as if your the body, that's how you suppose to feel, that lets you live your life as a human being, but the truth is that you are not just the body, you are all there is. We are not separate from the Cosmos, we are the Cosmos, we are looking at things in a very narrow minded way, and because of this we are missing the whole.
Of course we're not separate from the Cosmos, but myself and the Cosmos are not synonymous and have very distinct definitions and qualities. I am a "wave in the ocean," so to speak, but the ocean is not in the wave in a sense that suggests contingency, and I am not using ocean analogously for "One Consciousness," whatever that is even supposed to mean.
I think (and correct me if I'm wrong) that what psychoslice is suggesting with idea of "One Consciousness" is mankind as a whole, being aware (aka not dead).
I see what you mean though, the ocean is not synonomous with the waves. We as individuals don't make up the collective consciousness of every human being that is alive at this very moment.
As far as us being our bodies, obviously our bodies are contingent on the properties of the unvierse we live in. But when someone dies, their body is left behind, still bound by the laws of gravity and of the universe, but the person is no longer the person who was alive. A dead person is no longer conscious, so where did that consciousness go?
